LGBT Hero of the week Magda Szubanski.

Comedic actress and SBS Mardi Gras Parade show host Magda Szubanski almost couldn’t hold back tears as she spoke this morning about why programs like Safe Schools are so important.

“To think that people are accusing us of having a ‘homosexual agenda’ – our agenda is to save the lives of our young people and to help them survive, when there are voices accusing them of being unnatural and sick and wrong,” she said on The Today Show about conservative MPs attacks on the anti-bullying program in schools.

“It makes me heart sick. If I’d had something like that when I was young… ‘cause I wanted to end my life.”